I wrote it INSIDE "()", AS AN EDIT. since that was the only thing you could comment on, sad...
EDIT: I used a ":-)" three comments ago as a mark of irony. Well, justin66 have no serious answer, so I end it here.
Edit 2: Justin66 seems to downvote my comments in this old discussion now, with multiple accounts... 15+ downvotes on old and new comments in 20 minutes. That is what happens when people lack both a serious argument and maturity. (Easy to find for HN mods..)
Edit 3: detaro -- The karma is irrelevant. And I should be equally ashamed as justin66 for needling whai I hope is a teenager when he have dearly held wrong opinions. Enough.
Then write the mods an e-mail instead of hoping they read your comments.
You're getting downvotes, and flags, because you are being rude and aggressive.
You have a point, I am easily trolled when people lack arguments and start discussing person.
Regarding earlier comments... I got mainly upvotes, until an hour ago.
I have argued, a year or two ago, that this subject have to much emotional attachments and doesn't work on HN. It is twice as true today, it seems people now often have secondary accounts used for trolling when they lack answers about soemthing they find important.
You may be right about the topic not being appropriate for HN. Regardless of the behavior of other members—even if you think they're trolling—it's important to be civil. Even more so when the topic is emotional. Otherwise it's just better to refrain from commenting.
I have found that I am easily trolled when I have the beginning of allergy troubles. It is better to not comment than to find out the hard way I need anti histamines.
Sorry for wasting people's time and energy.
If it seemed to you that anything I wrote intended to argue that persecution and hatred of anyone is "excusable because of X", this was rather a waste of time.
Which is of course a surprise, since discussion of the Palestinian conflict online is ordinarily so productive...